DrawingsAmerican20th century

Sketches of a Bird

1912

Artists

John Singer SargentArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white laid paper

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

12.6 x 21 cm (4 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Provenance

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Learning to Leap Frog

Margaret Fisher, 20th century

Black ink on off-white wove paper

Casein and black and blue crayon on off-white card

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Sunrise on the "Bologna"

Denman Waldo Ross, 1920

Watercolor on darkened off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Ink diagrams and figures for paintings on paper

Barnett Newman, 20th century

Pen and ink on cream colored paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Buildings, Manhattan; verso: blank page

George Grosz, 1950-1951

Watercolor, graphite wash and black crayon on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled [Hills along the Coast]; verso: Untitled [Same Theme]

Lyonel Feininger, 5/27/1951

Graphite on paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled [Boats in the Water near Hilly Shore]; verso: Untitled [Hills]

Lyonel Feininger, 5/21/1946

Black crayon and ink ; black crayon on paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Cambodian Head

Howard Everett Giles, 19th-20th century

Charcoal on brown wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Study for "Jimmy with Lamp"

Fairfield Porter, 1971

Pastel on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Parainen, All Desires Known (4)

Kendra Ferguson, 1996

Incised line and Aquarelle on white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Roderick Firth (1917-1987)

Margaret Rawls, c. 1988

Watercolor on paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

CR 328, graphite sketch for Here II

Barnett Newman, c.1965

Graphite on commercially lined paper

20th centuryAmerican